we will turn to hawaii office of planning director leo asuncion calling on skype to talk about the issue. good morning. what do you define as affordable housing in the united states?

we will turn to hawaii office of planning director leo asuncion who is calling on skype to talk about issue. leo good morning. ,guest: good morning, jesse. host: what do you define as affordable housing in the united states? guest: we and hawaii, there is always by the numbers. we can use the hud numbers, the area of median income, but it is also for a person to say what is affordable? is it 30% of your mortgage? here in hawaii it is 40% to 60% of your income towards your housing and transportation needs. what we do is we try to stick numbers and look at how you would locally, what is affordable for our residents. especially for us with a high cost of living. host: what is hawaii doing to help people find affordable housing? is the state doing anything out of the ordinary to make sure people have a place to live? guest: what we are doing is trying to partner with our private developers here in the state. basically it is through the financing. the governor has set for himself a 10,000-unit goal by 2020. other studiesave that have been done where demand is upward of 66,000, of which abo

we will turn to hawaii office of planning director leo asuncion calling on skype to talk about the issue. good morning. what do you define as affordable housing in the united states? es? hawaii, there is always by the numbers. we can use the area median for a, but it is also person to say what is affordable? hawaiiyour mortgage and -- 30% of your mortgage? in hawaii it is 40%-60% of your income towards your mortgage and transportation. we stick to the high numbers, but look at how we do it locally in what is affordable for our residents. especially for us with a high cost of living. host: what is hawaii doing to help people find affordable housing? is the state doing anything out of the ordinary to make sure people have a place to live? caller: the state is trying to partner with our private developers in the state. basically it is through the financing. a 10,000 unitat 2020.y then we have other studies that have been done where demand is upward of 66,000, of which 22,500 would be affordable rentals. my office completed a study on how we would get there, at least for the rental part. tha

forces close to julian asuncion told r.t. that the ecuadorian embassy have drawn up a ten page documents a so-called protocol and part of this memo includes a number of measures which have to be followed and that hit by mr sound as part of his stay inside the ecuadorian embassy they cover various aspects of his day to day life including how his visits are regulated any visitors who do want to visit him have to make an official inquiry via email that covers things like his medical treatment how he communicates with the outside world and also he's prohibited from interfering in the internal affairs of other countries we know of course six months ago mr sound had his internet access cuts because of course he was making many statements about political issues around the world and as a result he had his access cut that's now been reestablished albeit only partial access to the internet now in september mr sound was forced to resign as we keep leaks he was replaced by the icelandic investigative journalist kristinn hrafnsson we can

we will be with leo asuncion discussing affordable housing. we will be right back. >> the c-span bus is traveling across the country. we recently stopped in indianapolis. looking forward to the november midterm election, we are asking which party should control congress and why. party i want to take over congress is the democratic party. it is not just because i support the values of the democratic party, but i think the republican party has completely its responsibility to serve as a check and balance on the executive branch. in addition to legislation, the respondent -- responsibility of congress to be the check and balance and we have not seen that. we have seen a presidency run amok. >> if it changes in november, i would be impacted in several ways. i am a college student who is just now getting out of school soon and i will be entering the workforce. things like tax breaks for financial matters that will be decided across congress will directly affect me in my future success. also, i'm an african-american woman. the representation there f

that's what we're seeing on sunday not quite as hot as it might be nineteen degrees as a maximum in asuncion but then the temperatures rise again as we head through monday as the hot air begins to make its way back towards us a twenty seven for us staying at around twenty five floors in rio still a few showers hey come monday and for the south to be fine i'm warming born as always all the way up at twenty six now a bit further towards the north and we've got a cluster of thunderstorms just to the southwest in parts of mexico that appears to be developing into a more significant system and will enhance the rains across the southwestern parts as we head through the next day of say so very wet weather here could be a bit of flooding and elsewhere towards the east there's also plenty of showers here those have been with us for a couple of days now is still likely to stick around so they will be causing a few problems as we head into monday we'll see showers generally cropping up during the day over parts of cuba now bit further towards the north we've got the remains of those are making their wa

eastern on washington journal, leo asuncion will talk about homelessness and lack of affordable housing on book tv, on c-span2 at noon, stewart coleman on his book "eddie would go" on the life of legendary hawaiian surfer eddie akau. and then an extensive book collection of late u.s. senator daniel inoway. sunday, our hawaii weekend continues on c-span at 9:30 a.m. eastern. on washington journal, jeff mikulina, executive director of the blue planet foundation on renewable efforts in hawaii. on c-span3, at 2:00 p.m. eastern, we visit the valley of the priest, in the valley along the north shore of oahu, and the polynesian voyaging society. at 4:00 p.m. eastern, three short documentaries about hawa i hawaii. a 1924 silent film, the hawaiian island, and the 1952 film, long jean's chronoscope. watch hawaiian weekend, this weekend on c-span, book tv, and american history tv. listen to hawaii weekend on the free c-span radio app. we're featuring honolulu mayor kirk caldwell saturday at 10:00 a.m. eastern. >> statei education officials offer the senate their thoughts on the every student succe

eastern, on "washington journal," l leo asuncion, director of hawaii's office of planning will talk aboutomelessness and lack of affordable housing. on book tv, on c-span2, at noon, stuart coleman on his book "eddie would go." then a visit to the university of hawaii at west oahu for the extensive book collection of late u.s. senator daniel inowe. our hawaii weekend continues on c-span at 9:30 a.m. eastern on "washington journal." jeff mikulina, executive director of the blue planet foundation, on renewable energy efforts in hawaii. on american history tv, on c-span3, at 2:00 p.m. eastern, we visit the valley of the priest in the valley along the north shore of oahu and the polynesian voyaging society in honolulu. at 4:00 p.m. eastern, three short documentaries about hawaii, the 1956 film "soldier in hawaii," the 1924 silent film the hawaiian islands and the 1952 film "long jeans kroen scope." watch hawaii weekend this weekend on c-span, book tv, and american history tv. listen to hawaii weekend on the free c-span radio app where featuring honolulu mayor kirk caldwell afford at 10:00 a.m.

eastern on "washington journal," leo asuncion, director of hawaii's office of planning, will talk about homelessness and lack of affordable housing. on booktv on c-span2 at noon, stuart coleman on his book "eddie would go" on the life of legendary surfer eddie akai. then a visit for the extensive book collection of late u.s. senator daniel inoe. on "washington journal," jeff mikulina, executive director of the blue planet foundation on renewable energy efforts in hawaii. on "american history tv" on c-span3, at 2:00 p.m. eastern we visit the valley of the priest. in the wimaya valley along the north shore of oahu. at 4:00 p.m. eastern, three short documentaries about hawaii. the 1956 film "soldier in hawaii." the 1924 silent film "the hawaiian islands." and the 1952 film, "longines ch chronoscope." listen to hawaii weekend on the free c-span radio app. we'rehonolulu mayor kirk caldwell saturday at 10:00 a.m. eastern. >>> on constitution day, c-span visited the national constitution center in philadelphia where we asked folks what does it mean to be american? >> i feel like i'm home, you

eastern on washington journal, leo asuncion will talk about lack of affordable housing. on c-span2 at noon, stuart coleman talks about his book, "eddie would go." and then we invite you to oahu for the latest on the book of dan danny -- jeff mikulina. and we have renewable energy efforts in hawaii. at 2:00 p.m. eastern we visit the valley of the priest along the north shore of oahu. and the polynesian invoice ajing society in hawaii. the 1924 silent film "the hawaiian islands" and the 1952 movie "longines chronoscope." we're featuring kirk caldwell saturday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span radio. >>> on constitution today, c-span visited the national constitution center in philadelphia where we asked folks, what does it mean to be american? >> you know, when you feel like you're at home so you feel like you're comfortable to live here. >> well, for me what it meant was that i was blessed to have been born in a country, one of the countries with the most freedoms for people, for all people to pursue happiness and life and joy with their families and a living. >> freedom to

we will turn to hawaii office of planning director leo asuncion